by brianosaurus (48471) on Thursday October 18, @10:40PM (#21031219)
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No to block the letters. block all 4-letter words. stock symbols appearing. As a bonus, it neutralize swear words, making email "" for children and christians.
And the : the solution doesn't sound contrived propaganda. I , really. Who heard of mp3 files infringe copyrights?
No, you didn't get that right. After they buy a 99 cents song from iTunes, people will pay another 99 cents for each time that song plays when someone calls them.
GP just needs a reason to feel better about his PS3 purchase...
Haze is a good game, and a PS3 exclusive = he's finally happy he bought this console
Haze is a good game, available on PS3/PC/XBOX360 = cool, but he could have played it on another system
Our concept is simple:
-Give consumers a full and free access to all their favourite songs
-Pay artists and their producers through a revenue share based on our advertising revenues
- Help discovering new artists through a wide audience
from the about us page on the site (emphasis mine)
If I'm the publisher and decide not to publish something, then it's self-censorship, which *IS* different.
Self-censorship, the censorship of the 21st century!
...while Crusaders where noble gentlemen exporting Christian love worldwide? Oh but it's all right because they were followers Jesus, so that can't be bad.
Of course, Mahomet was a fucking prophet, so I won't try the impossible and defend this character, as for me prophets are those who created this whole mess in the first place.
But there's a huge difference between discussing the early life of said prophet, and using it to represent a religion and its followers.
If the message had been something like "maybe you should reconsider who really was this guy who created this cult many years ago", no problem. But it was more like "ARABS = MUSLIMS = TERRORISTS!!!1"
Also, it's cool, you seem more informed than most historians and theologians on this planet.
Problem is, the censorship is because of the newspapers who refused to publish the comics, not because of the religion or its followers being made fun of.
You wrote : "Yet something really dangerous is occuring. The jews are far too small a group to be noticed, the christians are too corrupt, the hindoes barely matter in the western world but the muslims, now they seem to have gained a lot of control."
Come on... Jews "far too small a group to be noticed"? In the western world Jew lobbies are far more powerful than Muslim ones. I'm not trolling, just being realistic. For example here in France a radio host was fired a few years ago for a (bad taste) joke about the concentration camps. Maybe this was justified, anyway Jewish community may be small but has no problems being noticed when it wants to.
Let's not forget that here, the so-called "censorship" is due to newspapers refusing to publish it, not because of Muslims pressuring to have the comics banned. I don't see any proof of Muslims gaining "a lot of control". If anything, it shows the current obsession of western media with them. It shows how they're, again, spreading FUD. With an F as in FEAR.
The problem with the caricatures of Mahomet was not really that any representation of the prophet is forbidden. You'll often find them in satirical newspapers in the middle East, after all. What disturbed a lot of people was the fact that they were associating Mahomet with terrorism. The WIDE majority of Muslims are peaceful and condemn terrorism, of course it disturbed them, and they told so. Then this whole thing was everywhere in the Western media. Only after that, some fundamentalist assholes in the middle East tried to use this affair to serve their own propaganda, to galvanize crowds, but that's a completely different story.
I'd say DVD drove PS2 sales, not the other way. DVD already was the de facto standard, I know lots of young couples who at the time settled in a new home and bought a PS2 to use it as both a console and a DVD player.
This time, they try to push BluRay with PS3 sales, relying on the idea that PlayStation was the "standard" for gaming. But nothing's for granted in this market, remember Sega history.
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Energy efficient TVs are those that turn off by themselves after 5 minutes of use.
Sure, and if you convert a CD to MP3 files, then it's totally OK to distribute free copies of said files.
"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those"
Why not just hire a human being to change it every day?
Because the bots owners can hire more to do the same ?
Always? No. But when you want to further develop and at the same time promote a given set of tools, yes, you do.
Not checking your code before publishing? I can tell you could work in Redmond!
Re:Better : block all in email (Score:5, Funny)
by brianosaurus (48471) on Thursday October 18, @10:40PM (#21031219)
(http://www.brianosaurus.org/)
No to block the letters. block all 4-letter words. stock symbols appearing. As a bonus, it neutralize swear words, making email "" for children and christians.
And the : the solution doesn't sound contrived propaganda. I , really. Who heard of mp3 files infringe copyrights?
Dedicated groups of people usually do the subtitles overnight for the pirate versions anyway...
Stop posting crap, you're going to alert the karma police.
No, you didn't get that right. After they buy a 99 cents song from iTunes, people will pay another 99 cents for each time that song plays when someone calls them.
GP just needs a reason to feel better about his PS3 purchase...
Haze is a good game, and a PS3 exclusive = he's finally happy he bought this console
Haze is a good game, available on PS3/PC/XBOX360 = cool, but he could have played it on another system
Good list. I'd add Bad Mojo to it.
http://www.gotgameentertainment.com/badmojo/
Phantasmagoria made me laugh instead of frightening me, though.
"I'll consider buying a Direct X 10 game the moment Wine/Cedega supports it."
You won't have to buy it. It'll be abandonware by then.
Our concept is simple:
-Give consumers a full and free access to all their favourite songs
-Pay artists and their producers through a revenue share based on our advertising revenues
- Help discovering new artists through a wide audience
from the about us page on the site (emphasis mine)
OTOH, following your theory, MySpace users are more likely to have an underpaid job at Wal-Mart, giving them even more reasons to complain.
In other news, Netcast announces 10% of reduction for worldwide P2P traffic* since the release of Vista.
* from Vista machines
Exactly. Repression or censorship using the mask of democracy or liberalism are, in many ways, more dangerous than blatant government oppression.
If I'm the publisher and decide not to publish something, then it's self-censorship, which *IS* different. Self-censorship, the censorship of the 21st century!
...while Crusaders where noble gentlemen exporting Christian love worldwide? Oh but it's all right because they were followers Jesus, so that can't be bad.
Of course, Mahomet was a fucking prophet, so I won't try the impossible and defend this character, as for me prophets are those who created this whole mess in the first place.
But there's a huge difference between discussing the early life of said prophet, and using it to represent a religion and its followers.
If the message had been something like "maybe you should reconsider who really was this guy who created this cult many years ago", no problem. But it was more like "ARABS = MUSLIMS = TERRORISTS!!!1"
Also, it's cool, you seem more informed than most historians and theologians on this planet.
Problem is, the censorship is because of the newspapers who refused to publish the comics, not because of the religion or its followers being made fun of.
You wrote : "Yet something really dangerous is occuring. The jews are far too small a group to be noticed, the christians are too corrupt, the hindoes barely matter in the western world but the muslims, now they seem to have gained a lot of control."
Come on... Jews "far too small a group to be noticed"? In the western world Jew lobbies are far more powerful than Muslim ones. I'm not trolling, just being realistic. For example here in France a radio host was fired a few years ago for a (bad taste) joke about the concentration camps. Maybe this was justified, anyway Jewish community may be small but has no problems being noticed when it wants to.
Let's not forget that here, the so-called "censorship" is due to newspapers refusing to publish it, not because of Muslims pressuring to have the comics banned. I don't see any proof of Muslims gaining "a lot of control". If anything, it shows the current obsession of western media with them. It shows how they're, again, spreading FUD. With an F as in FEAR.
The problem with the caricatures of Mahomet was not really that any representation of the prophet is forbidden. You'll often find them in satirical newspapers in the middle East, after all. What disturbed a lot of people was the fact that they were associating Mahomet with terrorism. The WIDE majority of Muslims are peaceful and condemn terrorism, of course it disturbed them, and they told so. Then this whole thing was everywhere in the Western media. Only after that, some fundamentalist assholes in the middle East tried to use this affair to serve their own propaganda, to galvanize crowds, but that's a completely different story.
It's not forbidden to make fun of Muslims. http://www.cbc.ca/littlemosque/ Now airing in France, too. Nobody complained.
Should I post this as a coward? Oh well, who cares about karma?
Error : divide by 0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
http://www.catb.org/~esr/
http://esr.ibiblio.org/
Nope, still at the "preparing the masses" phase...
I'd say DVD drove PS2 sales, not the other way. DVD already was the de facto standard, I know lots of young couples who at the time settled in a new home and bought a PS2 to use it as both a console and a DVD player. This time, they try to push BluRay with PS3 sales, relying on the idea that PlayStation was the "standard" for gaming. But nothing's for granted in this market, remember Sega history.